Health Information Specialist

Duties and Responsibilities: Health Information Specialists obtain, post, and analyze medical, workload, finance, and insurance data.  They ensure that this information is properly recorded into medical records so practitioners can plan and evaluate health care provided to patients.

Average Salary:

·         $20,000 - $25,000 (Coding Specialists) 

·         $23,000 - $30,000 (Record Technicians) 

·         $30,000 - $40,000 (Record Administrators)

Educational Requirements: Students should take high school courses in business, information management, science, math, and English.

Coding specialists must have a high school diploma or GED certificate.  Training is usually conducted on the job, but classes are offered at technical schools and community colleges.  To become certified, specialists must pass an examination.

Accredited record technicians must earn an associate's degree from an accredited college program or from the American Health Information Management Association Independent Study Program.  Additionally, they must pass a credentialing examination.

Record administrators must complete a bachelor's degree program in the field and pass a certification examination.

I think that I wouldn't like to be a Health Information Specialist because they work with data and organizing it, I think I wouldn't like to work gathering data so I wouldn’t like to have this career.             I would rather be an obstetrician, and work with patients instead of analyzing data.

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